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SHENG (RAW) PU'ER
Hà Giàng, Vietnam
1999 Ha Giang Lao Shu Sheng Cha is a rare aged raw Pu'Er-style tea produced from old tea tree material growing in the remote mountain forests of Hà Giàng province in northern Vietnam. Naturally matured for more than two decades, this tea reflects the combination of ancient Shan Tuyết tea material, traditional processing, and long-term transformation developed through careful aging. The infusion is deep, smooth, and highly layered, offering woody and mineral nuances, medicinal and resinous complexity, refined sweetness, cooling freshness, and a long, persistent aftertaste with exceptional maturity and mountain character. MORE
GOLD MEDAL at THE GOLDEN LEAF AWARDS
"Puerh Tea – Sheng" 2025
310 g cake
AROMA
Woody, tobacco
TASTE
Woody, nutty
Vietnam Natural Storage
HARVEST: 1999
SHENG (RAW) PU'ER
Hà Giàng, Vietnam
1999 Ha Giang Lao Shu Sheng Cha is a rare aged raw Pu'Er-style tea produced from old tea tree material growing in the remote mountain forests of Hà Giàng province in northern Vietnam. Naturally matured for more than two decades, this tea reflects the combination of ancient Shan Tuyết tea material, traditional processing, and long-term transformation developed through careful aging. The infusion is deep, smooth, and highly layered, offering woody and mineral nuances, medicinal and resinous complexity, refined sweetness, cooling freshness, and a long, persistent aftertaste with exceptional maturity and mountain character. MORE
GOLD MEDAL at THE GOLDEN LEAF AWARDS
"Puerh Tea – Sheng" 2025
310 g cake
AROMA
Woody, tobacco
TASTE
Woody, nutty
Vietnam Natural Storage
HARVEST: 1999
SHENG PU'ER is a traditional post-processed tea made from sun-dried tea leaves that continue to evolve naturally through slow fermentation and aging over time. Thanks to minimal processing and its living microbial ecosystem, this type of tea retains a rich concentration of polyphenols, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, aromatic compounds, and other bioactive substances that gradually transform as the tea matures.
Unlike most tea categories, Sheng Pu'Er continues to develop for decades after production, with aging enhancing its complexity, smoothness, and depth while reducing bitterness and astringency. It is believed that regular consumption of Sheng Pu'Er may support cardiovascular health, contribute to healthy cholesterol metabolism, assist the body's natural antioxidant defenses, and promote healthy digestion. Traditionally, Sheng Pu'Er has also been appreciated for its invigorating Cha Qi, its ability to enhance mental clarity and concentration, support physical vitality, and create a balanced state of energy, calmness, and overall well-being.
Unlike most tea categories, Sheng Pu'Er continues to develop for decades after production, with aging enhancing its complexity, smoothness, and depth while reducing bitterness and astringency. It is believed that regular consumption of Sheng Pu'Er may support cardiovascular health, contribute to healthy cholesterol metabolism, assist the body's natural antioxidant defenses, and promote healthy digestion. Traditionally, Sheng Pu'Er has also been appreciated for its invigorating Cha Qi, its ability to enhance mental clarity and concentration, support physical vitality, and create a balanced state of energy, calmness, and overall well-being.
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SEED-GROWN TEA PLANT
This tea refers to a Qunzi Zhong, a "seed-grown tea plant". Unlike cloned or asexually propagated cultivars, which are created by cuttings or grafting from a single "mother" plant, Qunzi Zhong tea trees are grown from seeds. This results in a genetically diverse population of plants. Each seed-grown tea tree is unique, with slightly different characteristics. This genetic variety helps improve the resilience of the tea garden, making it more resistant to pests, diseases, and environmental stress. Seed-grown trees usually develop stronger and deeper roots than cloned plants, allowing them to draw nutrients and minerals from deeper soil layers, often giving the tea a more complex and rich flavor profile. Qunzi Zhong represents the traditional way of tea cultivation. Because of the genetic diversity, teas made from Qunzi Zhong plants tend to offer more layered and nuanced flavors, reflecting a richer expression of the local terroir (soil, climate, and environment).
WILD TEA
Wild tea refers to plants that grow naturally in the forest or mountains without human planting, pruning, or care. These trees are very old, deeply rooted in the earth, and part of a diverse natural ecosystem. These are tall, old trees, some more than 100, 300, or even 1000+ years old, rooted deep into mineral-rich soil, thriving in diverse ecosystems. Wild tea trees grow tall and strong, with roots reaching deep into the earth. This allows them to absorb various minerals, creating complex, full-bodied flavors that change with each harvest. Growing in remote forests, these trees are untouched by pesticides or fertilizers. Many tea lovers say wild teas carry a unique energy, a grounding, calming, and sometimes uplifting presence. This is believed to be the "Qi" of the mountains, the life force of ancient trees, passed into the leaves. Wild tea is often high in antioxidants, polyphenols, and minerals. Because these trees grow slowly and absorb nutrients naturally, their leaves produce clean, nourishing brews that are gentle on the body but rich in effect.
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EASTERN (PIN CHA) ★
Temperature: 99 °C
Amount: 3-5 grams per 120 ml of water
Steeping: 10-30 sec x 7+
WESTERN (INFUSION)
Temperature: 99 °C
Amount: 2-3 grams per 250 ml of water
Steeping: 1-2 min x 3
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Tea absorbs surrounding aromas and moisture. This type of tea oxidizes when it comes into contact with oxygen and loses its properties, including taste and aroma. Store it in a dry and cool place in airtight packaging. Avoid direct exposure to the sun and high temperatures.
BEST BEFORE: 2 years since production date!
*Suitable for long-term aging. Under proper storage conditions, the tea may gradually develop increased depth, smoothness, and complexity.
BEST BEFORE: 2 years since production date!
*Suitable for long-term aging. Under proper storage conditions, the tea may gradually develop increased depth, smoothness, and complexity.
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ABOUT
1999 Ha Giang Lao Shu Sheng Cha is a rare aged raw Pu'Er-style tea produced from old tea tree material growing in the remote mountain regions of Hà Giàng province in northern Vietnam. Originally produced as a private order for the Hong Kong market, this tea reflects the combination of ancient Shan Tuyết tea material, traditional Sheng-style processing, and more than two decades of gradual natural transformation. Carefully preserved under Vietnamese natural storage conditions, the tea developed exceptional maturity, structural integration, and aromatic complexity while preserving its vibrant mountain character and energetic depth.
The tea was produced using old tea tree material growing in high-mountain forest environments where ancient Shan Tuyết trees develop slowly under cool temperatures, dense mist, and mineral-rich ecological conditions. Compared to many Yunnan Sheng Pu'Er profiles, aged Hà Giàng mountain teas often express a distinctive balance between deep minerality, cooling freshness, woody maturity, medicinal complexity, and refined wild forest character. Over more than twenty years of aging, the tea gradually transformed into a smooth, layered, and highly expressive profile highly appreciated among experienced lovers of aged Sheng-style tea.
In 2025, this tea received a GOLD MEDAL at THE GOLDEN LEAF AWARDS in the category “Pu'Er Tea – Sheng”, further confirming its exceptional quality, maturity, and unique character on an international level. Due to both its age and original limited private production, this tea remains an extremely rare find, especially outside of Asia. It represents a highly collectible and increasingly difficult-to-find example of naturally aged Vietnamese Sheng-style tea, especially valued among real old tea connoisseurs and collectors seeking mature mountain character, authenticity, and long-term transformation.
TERROIR
The mountain regions of Hà Giàng province in northern Vietnam are among the most ecologically rich and historically important tea-growing environments in Southeast Asia, internationally respected for ancient Shan Tuyết tea forests and highly expressive mountain tea material. Tea trees in these remote mountain environments grow under cool highland conditions shaped by dense mist, abundant rainfall, humid air, and strong day-to-night temperature variation. These environmental conditions contribute directly to the tea’s pronounced minerality, energetic clarity, cooling freshness, and layered aromatic complexity.
The mountain soils of Hà Giàng are rich in minerals and organic matter, with stable moisture retention and excellent natural drainage. Old tea trees growing in these remote forest ecosystems develop extensive root systems capable of penetrating deeply into the mountain terrain and interacting with multiple soil layers accumulated through centuries of ecological development. This deep mineral interaction contributes to the dense texture, structural depth, persistent aftertaste, and refined wild mountain character characteristic of high-quality aged Shan Tuyết tea material.
Dense forest vegetation and relatively untouched mountain ecology play a particularly important role in shaping the identity of aged Hà Giàng Sheng-style tea. Frequent cloud cover and mountain mist moderate direct sunlight exposure, helping preserve aromatic freshness and complexity within the leaves, while cooler mountain temperatures support slow and balanced leaf development. Compared to many Yunnan Sheng Pu'Er profiles, ancient Hà Giàng tea material often expresses a distinctive balance between woody maturity, vibrant cooling sensations, mineral clarity, medicinal complexity, and refined forest character.
More than two decades of Vietnamese natural storage became an essential continuation of the tea’s terroir evolution after production. The warm and humid climate of northern Vietnam gradually softened the youthful structural sharpness of the tea while encouraging the development of deeper woody, resinous, herbal, humid, and camphor-like characteristics associated with mature Sheng-style tea. At the same time, the tea preserved remarkable energetic clarity, mountain freshness, and structural balance, creating a mature profile with exceptional depth, authenticity, and long-lasting aromatic evolution highly appreciated among experienced aged tea collectors.
ORGANOLEPTICS
The dry leaves are dark, mature, and naturally twisted, displaying deep brown, copper, and dark olive tones characteristic of long-aged Sheng-style tea produced from ancient Shan Tuyết material. Their appearance reflects more than two decades of gradual natural transformation while preserving the integrity and texture of the old tree leaves. The aroma of the dry leaf is deep, warm, and exceptionally layered, combining notes of aged wood, medicinal herbs, humid forest tones, warm minerals, resin, dried fruits, dark honey, and pronounced camphor-like freshness. In a preheated gaiwan or teapot, the aroma becomes increasingly expressive and complex, revealing additional layers of tree bark, incense wood, herbal medicine, humid earth, soft spice, old books, forest moss, and cooling mountain nuances characteristic of mature Hà Giàng mountain tea. After the rinse, the leaves fully awaken and the aromatic profile becomes smoother and more integrated, balancing woody maturity, mineral depth, medicinal complexity, and refined sweetness.
The liquor is clear and bright, with a deep amber-red tone reflecting more than twenty years of natural maturation. The aroma of the infusion is layered, mature, and highly persistent, combining warm minerals, aged wood, medicinal herbs, resinous notes, humid forest nuances, dried fruits, dark honey, and cooling camphor freshness. The texture is dense, smooth, and highly coating, showing remarkable integration and structural depth developed through long-term Vietnamese natural storage. Initial bitterness is exceptionally soft, refined, and fully integrated, gradually transforming into pronounced Hui Gan, deep returning sweetness that develops continuously throughout the palate and throat. Layers of aged wood, herbal medicine, warm minerals, resin, incense, dried fruits, humid earth, soft spice, forest honey, and cooling sensations continue evolving throughout the session while maintaining remarkable harmony between maturity, energetic clarity, structural balance, and aromatic persistence.
The aftertaste is exceptionally long, cooling, and deeply persistent, with sweetness and mineral freshness remaining in the throat and mouth long after drinking. As the tea continues to open, the structure becomes increasingly rounded, expansive, and integrated while preserving its vibrant Hà Giàng mountain identity and refined aged character. In the empty cup, the aroma remains warm and expressive, revealing lingering notes of aged wood, medicinal herbs, resin, dark honey, humid forest tones, incense, dried fruits, forest moss, and pronounced camphor undertones.
1999 Ha Giang Lao Shu Sheng Cha is a rare aged raw Pu'Er-style tea produced from old tea tree material growing in the remote mountain regions of Hà Giàng province in northern Vietnam. Originally produced as a private order for the Hong Kong market, this tea reflects the combination of ancient Shan Tuyết tea material, traditional Sheng-style processing, and more than two decades of gradual natural transformation. Carefully preserved under Vietnamese natural storage conditions, the tea developed exceptional maturity, structural integration, and aromatic complexity while preserving its vibrant mountain character and energetic depth.
The tea was produced using old tea tree material growing in high-mountain forest environments where ancient Shan Tuyết trees develop slowly under cool temperatures, dense mist, and mineral-rich ecological conditions. Compared to many Yunnan Sheng Pu'Er profiles, aged Hà Giàng mountain teas often express a distinctive balance between deep minerality, cooling freshness, woody maturity, medicinal complexity, and refined wild forest character. Over more than twenty years of aging, the tea gradually transformed into a smooth, layered, and highly expressive profile highly appreciated among experienced lovers of aged Sheng-style tea.
In 2025, this tea received a GOLD MEDAL at THE GOLDEN LEAF AWARDS in the category “Pu'Er Tea – Sheng”, further confirming its exceptional quality, maturity, and unique character on an international level. Due to both its age and original limited private production, this tea remains an extremely rare find, especially outside of Asia. It represents a highly collectible and increasingly difficult-to-find example of naturally aged Vietnamese Sheng-style tea, especially valued among real old tea connoisseurs and collectors seeking mature mountain character, authenticity, and long-term transformation.
TERROIR
The mountain regions of Hà Giàng province in northern Vietnam are among the most ecologically rich and historically important tea-growing environments in Southeast Asia, internationally respected for ancient Shan Tuyết tea forests and highly expressive mountain tea material. Tea trees in these remote mountain environments grow under cool highland conditions shaped by dense mist, abundant rainfall, humid air, and strong day-to-night temperature variation. These environmental conditions contribute directly to the tea’s pronounced minerality, energetic clarity, cooling freshness, and layered aromatic complexity.
The mountain soils of Hà Giàng are rich in minerals and organic matter, with stable moisture retention and excellent natural drainage. Old tea trees growing in these remote forest ecosystems develop extensive root systems capable of penetrating deeply into the mountain terrain and interacting with multiple soil layers accumulated through centuries of ecological development. This deep mineral interaction contributes to the dense texture, structural depth, persistent aftertaste, and refined wild mountain character characteristic of high-quality aged Shan Tuyết tea material.
Dense forest vegetation and relatively untouched mountain ecology play a particularly important role in shaping the identity of aged Hà Giàng Sheng-style tea. Frequent cloud cover and mountain mist moderate direct sunlight exposure, helping preserve aromatic freshness and complexity within the leaves, while cooler mountain temperatures support slow and balanced leaf development. Compared to many Yunnan Sheng Pu'Er profiles, ancient Hà Giàng tea material often expresses a distinctive balance between woody maturity, vibrant cooling sensations, mineral clarity, medicinal complexity, and refined forest character.
More than two decades of Vietnamese natural storage became an essential continuation of the tea’s terroir evolution after production. The warm and humid climate of northern Vietnam gradually softened the youthful structural sharpness of the tea while encouraging the development of deeper woody, resinous, herbal, humid, and camphor-like characteristics associated with mature Sheng-style tea. At the same time, the tea preserved remarkable energetic clarity, mountain freshness, and structural balance, creating a mature profile with exceptional depth, authenticity, and long-lasting aromatic evolution highly appreciated among experienced aged tea collectors.
ORGANOLEPTICS
The dry leaves are dark, mature, and naturally twisted, displaying deep brown, copper, and dark olive tones characteristic of long-aged Sheng-style tea produced from ancient Shan Tuyết material. Their appearance reflects more than two decades of gradual natural transformation while preserving the integrity and texture of the old tree leaves. The aroma of the dry leaf is deep, warm, and exceptionally layered, combining notes of aged wood, medicinal herbs, humid forest tones, warm minerals, resin, dried fruits, dark honey, and pronounced camphor-like freshness. In a preheated gaiwan or teapot, the aroma becomes increasingly expressive and complex, revealing additional layers of tree bark, incense wood, herbal medicine, humid earth, soft spice, old books, forest moss, and cooling mountain nuances characteristic of mature Hà Giàng mountain tea. After the rinse, the leaves fully awaken and the aromatic profile becomes smoother and more integrated, balancing woody maturity, mineral depth, medicinal complexity, and refined sweetness.
The liquor is clear and bright, with a deep amber-red tone reflecting more than twenty years of natural maturation. The aroma of the infusion is layered, mature, and highly persistent, combining warm minerals, aged wood, medicinal herbs, resinous notes, humid forest nuances, dried fruits, dark honey, and cooling camphor freshness. The texture is dense, smooth, and highly coating, showing remarkable integration and structural depth developed through long-term Vietnamese natural storage. Initial bitterness is exceptionally soft, refined, and fully integrated, gradually transforming into pronounced Hui Gan, deep returning sweetness that develops continuously throughout the palate and throat. Layers of aged wood, herbal medicine, warm minerals, resin, incense, dried fruits, humid earth, soft spice, forest honey, and cooling sensations continue evolving throughout the session while maintaining remarkable harmony between maturity, energetic clarity, structural balance, and aromatic persistence.
The aftertaste is exceptionally long, cooling, and deeply persistent, with sweetness and mineral freshness remaining in the throat and mouth long after drinking. As the tea continues to open, the structure becomes increasingly rounded, expansive, and integrated while preserving its vibrant Hà Giàng mountain identity and refined aged character. In the empty cup, the aroma remains warm and expressive, revealing lingering notes of aged wood, medicinal herbs, resin, dark honey, humid forest tones, incense, dried fruits, forest moss, and pronounced camphor undertones.
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